The provisions of this bylaw shall be interpreted
to be the minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of the health,
safety, or the general welfare of the Town of Abington, Massachusetts
and except for the Zoning Bylaw of the Town of Abington dated 10/2/62
and any amendments thereto, the provisions of this bylaw are not intended
to repeal, or in any way impair or interfere with any lawfully adopted
bylaw, regulations, or rules. Whenever the regulations made under
the authority hereof differ from those prescribed by any bylaw or
other regulations, that provision which imposes the greater restriction
or the higher standard shall govern.
Except as herein provided, or as specifically
exempted by the Zoning Enabling Act, the provisions of this bylaw
shall apply to the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration,
or use of buildings and structures or use of land. Except as herein
provided, any existing conforming use, structure, or lot shall not
by any action become nonconforming, and any existing nonconforming
use, structure, or lot shall not become further nonconforming.
When a lot is situated in part in the Town of
Abington and in part in an adjacent municipality, the provisions of
the bylaw shall be applied to the portion of such lot in the Town
of Abington in the same manner as if the entire lot were situated
in the Town of Abington
[Amended 5-24-2021 ATM by Art. 24]
When a lot is transected by a zoning district boundary line, the regulations of the bylaw applicable to the larger part (50% or greater) of such lot may also at the option of the lot owner be deemed to govern in the smaller part up to a maximum distance of 100 feet beyond such zoning district boundary line, provided that the buffer areas required in § 175-66 of this bylaw are met.
[Amended 4-7-2003 ATM by Art. 25]
No principal building shall be built except on a lot fronting on a street. There shall be not more than one principal building on a lot except for attached dwellings, apartments, and condominium developments in accordance with §§ 175-31 and 175-32 of this bylaw or for commercial development in accordance with §§ 175-33, 175-37, 175-38 or 75-39 of this bylaw. For any residential dwelling unit, the driveway access to all principal buildings shall be from the same location on which the required lot frontage is located.
Land within the lines of a street on which a
lot abuts shall not be counted as part of such lot for the purposes
of meeting the area requirements of the bylaw even though the fee
to such land may be in the owner's abutting lots.
This bylaw shall not apply to existing buildings,
structures, or recorded lots, nor to the existing use of any building,
structure, or land to the extent to which it is used at the adoption
of this bylaw. It shall apply to any change of use thereof and to
any alteration of a building or structure when the same would amount
to reconstruction, extension or structural change, and to any alteration
of a building or structure to provide for its use for a purpose or
in a manner substantially different from the use to which it was put
before alteration or for its use for the same purpose to a substantially
greater extent.
In cases of mixed occupancy, the regulation
for each use shall apply to the portion of the building or land so
used.
